Japan's Fukuda appoints three to key LDP postions

ChrisOliver

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Yasuo Fukuda, who is set to become Japan's next prime minister, announced appointments to key positions in the Liberal Democratic Party Monday. Education minister Bummei Ibuki, 69 will take up the post of LDP secretary general, while former finance minister Sadakazu Tanigaki, 62, was selected as chairman of the LDP Policy Research Council, the Nikkei News reported. Fukuda also chose to retain Toshihiro Nikai, 68 as LDP general council chairman. ''I believe I picked the right persons for the right posts. I made the decision after comprehensive considerations,'' the Nikkei reported Fukuda as saying at an afternoon press conference. The appointments, along with others, were formalized at an extraordinary General Council meeting Monday afternoon.

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